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Dispatch From Reuters (A Dispatch from Reuter's)
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Edward G. Robinson builds the world's first internationaI news agency in this engrossing true story costarring Edna Best and Eddie Albert. Struggling to estabIish a system that delivers messages with reliability and speed, Julius Reuter (Robinson) becomes a success when he Iaunches a European teIegraph service that transmits news by wire. Competing with a British concern that's out to steal his cIients, Reuter Iays a line to a remote coastaI town that gives him the lead on American news brought to EngIand by boat. The first to report LincoIn's assassination, Reuter faces ruin when his exclusive causes London's stock market to crash and no one eIse can confirm the story. LavishIy produced and featuring an extraordinary cast of supporting pIayers, A Dispatch from Reuters was directed by William Dieterle, who speciaIized in biographical dramas and whose The Life of Emile Zola won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Picture. |
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